Re: Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

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On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 23:03 +0100, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2008 20:21:18 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:00 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > >
> > > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I dl´ed the RC3 binary from mozilla.com and it does seem to work
> > > > better. Unfortunately it's a 32-bit binary so a lot of my plugins don't
> > > > work. I can't seem to find a 64-bit version anywhere. I seem to
> > > > remember Mozilla used to keep a larger set of binaries in
> > > > ftp.mozilla.com, not all of which appeared on the Web page, but now
> > > > it's gone.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone managed to obtain (or build) a 64-bit version of RC3?
> > >
> > > I think you want the x86_64 bit version here:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.9.0/
> > >
> > > It's called a nightly, but I bet it's exactly the same as RC3.
> >
> > Thanks Reid, I'll check it out.
> 
> You may also want to check out SwiftFox, available for many processor types:
> 
> http://getswiftfox.com/index.htm
> 
> The installer works well on this F9 box.

The web page doesn't make clear just why one would want to do that,
beyond implying they compiled with some optimizations. The phrase
"attempts to use existing Firefox plugins" is also a bit off-putting.
Does this mean it will use the same ones FF3 uses (i.e. not all of them)
or are there further problems? I think I'll pass for now.

poc

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